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Metastatic cancer in the Jurassic

Abstract

Recognition of cancer in extreme antiquity has been limited to osteomas in mosasaurs and haemangiomas and growths of unclear origin in dinosaurs. We describe a metastatic cancer in a dinosaur.

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B.M. Rothschild, B.J. Witzke, I. Hershkovitz. 1999. Metastatic cancer in the Jurassic. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(99)01019-3

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